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I have cross-posted this in the Racing forum, but I also wanted to place it here to get alternative ideas......

A friend of ours has one of these, which he is now thinking of selling. It only has about five hundred miles on it, and it's correct down to the smallest detail, racing slicks and all.... He has an obscene amount of money into it (I told him, buy a mint E-type which will only appreciate, but noooooo) and he realises that he will only get a fraction of what he put into it.

He has asked if I would help him in selling it, and I wondered if anyone had some suggestions as to how to go about it, in addition to the usual eBay and Craigslist, of course.

It could be used as a racecar, and in fact it really should be, the thing is too much of a weapon to be used on the street, even though it is registered and street-legal. It would be a great opportunity for someone. It is painted the lighter (correct) Nordic Blue, and has no decals on it.

Any thoughts?
 
I'm assuming it's a Factory Five replica. If so, maybe posting for sale on their forum will move it.

I don't have the URL handy but a Google can be done on Factory Five Forum and it should pop right up. Very active site.
 
I'll trade him a ratty TR6 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I've always loved those, even if they are replica's...Probably the only replica of anything I'd ever consider owning.
 
He should do alright in the right market.. there are several companies making Daytona replicas. Factory 5 has a very nice one. The Superformance version is excellent (and being built under licence of Shelby) both are fiberglass bodied. and there are some that are far more accurate to the originals.
Do a search for"cobra owners forums" you'll get lots of hits.. and that would be a good place to start..
My buddy has a Factory 5 Coupe with a honkin Ford big bolck.. it's nice, but he says hed never let it go for for under $125K... I doubt he'll ever sell it.
I'd be very open to having a replica of one of these, as getting hold of one of the 6 originals is basically impossible (unless you make my yearly salary per hour).
 
Theres some pics of an original...And the story behind how they found it here : Cars in Barns - Shelby Unfortunatly the page is all messed up on my computer and I can no longer read the story(I think there used to be another link with the complete story) But if someone can find it, it's a great story.
 
Yea.. that was a heck of a story. I remember it being in Car and driver a few years back.. it was sold to one of Shelbys mechanics for something like $500 then to a Radio show host/ producer (who put the lettering on the side), then to the lady that last owned it, and her son used it as a daily driver. Then she put it in a storage garage for something like 20 years so noone could get it until after she died..
I probably got it a little wrong.. It was a couple of years ago when I read it
 
The Superformance Coupes had the benefit of Peter Brock, the original designer, have a hand in the redesign to make it a more streetable car. Things he wanted to do originally but the current tech wouldn't allow etc... Factory Five makes a darn fine product as well. AS far as the original six... Evidently the Shelby American Collection in Boulder now has two, along with one of the Wilment Coupes.

Since there were only six original coupes one would think that some vintage organizations would be a little more lax on allowing a replica. As long as it was correctly vintage prepared that it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Here is one of the original 6. Sorry they are so big. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif These were taken in the spring of '04. I'll have some newer ones in early December. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Yea.. that was a heck of a story. I remember it being in Car and driver a few years back.. it was sold to one of Shelbys mechanics for something like $500 then to a Radio show host/ producer (who put the lettering on the side), then to the lady that last owned it, and her son used it as a daily driver. Then she put it in a storage garage for something like 20 years so noone could get it until after she died..
I probably got it a little wrong.. It was a couple of years ago when I read it

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I think that lady was a little /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif and refused to sell the car for something like a million bucks while she stuggled to get by....Eventually she burnt herself to death or something /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
yea, I think that's about how it went... she was definatly a bit odd..
Are all 6 accounted for? I'm thinking that that was the only one that was "lost"
 
I have always loved them since they came out. Had a chance about 1976 to put one on the track, a 429, with all the stuff available at the time, belonged to Harvey Greenstine, or however he spelled it, in Hawaii. He was the lawyer to the woman who sued about prayers in school and such.

Any way it had discs, big fat tires and an exhaust note that sounded like thunder on the straight aways. Of course idle on the corners, but then after a bugeye nothing cornered well.

It was fun though, he was really a nice guy and we all, those in the club got to drive it some. It was always in the shop it seemed for upgrades of some sort.
 
There's a team every year at Watkins Glen, they sound like thunder and go like lightning!
 
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There's a team every year at Watkins Glen, they sound like thunder and go like lightning!

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I know /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
Haven't gotton out on the track in a Superformance yet, but I got an "in" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
As I mentioned before, I have raced in an enduro against a fellow with a Daytona replica (also against his wife, who has a pink 944). And our club Chairman is building one.

But I am hoping to see <u>Serial #1 Cobra Daytona Coupe</u> at some point in 2007.

The vintage club I race with, VRG, does a yearly trip to a small, personal collection of a Philadelphia physician named Fred Simeone. His collection include that first Daytona. I haven't been on this trip, but I am hoping to go in '07. A report on Dr. Fred's collection can be found here:

https://www.vrgonline.org/newsletters/0706-Vol3.3.pdf
 
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